acres, and you enjoy a variety of activities on your land: watching wildlife, hiking, hunting, picking berries, picnicking or taking photos of wildlife and wildflowers. You delight in the beauty and solitude that comes with owning a woodland. You warm yourself in late fall and winter by cutting a little firewood, and you wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash, though managing your woodland fo...

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan kesendirian (solitude) di masa pembatasan sosial akibat pandemi Covid-19. Berbagai studi menunjukkan bahwa telah memengaruhi dimensi kehidupan manusia seperti kesehatan, ekonomi, sosial, dan pendidikan. Tidak hanya berbagai tersebut, salah satu perubahan yang dialami oleh banyak orang adalah (social distancing) atau membangun jarak dengan lain (physical...

Early studies of creative ideation showed that individuals brainstorming in isolation tend to generate more and better ideas than groups. But recent studies depict a more complex picture, reinforcing the need to better understand individual and group ideation. Studying group influence is one way to address the complex interplay between ideas in different brainstorming scenarios. We define group...

Probabilistic algorithms are developed for a basic problem in distributed computation, assuming anonymous, asynchronous, unidirectional rings of processors. The problem, known as Solitude Detection, requires that a nonempty subset of the processors, called contenders, determine whether or not there is exactly one contender. Monte Carlo algorithms are developed, that err with probability bounded...

THINK BACK TO that tragic scene near the end of James Cameron’s Titanic when, after the ship has sunk, Rose clings to some fl otsam. Her lover, Jack, tries to hang on, only to slip away as hypothermia overcomes him. From a cinematic perspective, Cameron’s storytelling skills were particularly powerful: you could almost feel the frigid water enfold you, and you could easily project yourself into...